Relentlessly advocating
for freedom and opportunity
in South Carolina
Our Mission
Palmetto Promise Impact's mission is to transform the policy vision of Palmetto Promise Institute into tangible results through strategic advocacy and direct action
Our Process
While the Institute champions solutions that promote freedom, prosperity, and opportunity for all South Carolinians, Palmetto Promise Impact works to ensure those ideas become reality by advancing key legislation and engaging directly with policymakers and the public
Our Vision
Together, both organizations aim to create a South Carolina where individuals can thrive and pursue their God-given potential.
Our Mission
Palmetto Promise Impact's mission is to transform the policy vision of Palmetto Promise Institute into tangible results through strategic advocacy and direct action.
Our Process
While the Institute champions solutions that promote freedom, prosperity, and opportunity for all South Carolinians, Palmetto Promise Impact works to ensure those ideas become reality by advancing key legislation and engaging directly with policymakers and the public.
Our Vision
Together, both organizations aim to create a South Carolina where individuals can thrive and pursue their God-given potential.
Policy Priorities
Latest News
Small Modular Reactors: One Solution to South Carolina’s Big Power Problem
“Energy demand in South Carolina is rising…This growing demand requires reliable and affordable solutions if South Carolina wishes to remain a hotspot for economic opportunity.”
Public Charter School Reform Comes to South Carolina
“Governor Henry McMaster recently signed S.454 into law, enacting a plethora of reforms to the public charter school sector…We’ve broken down the key components of the bill.”
The Other Target of Billboard Lawyers
As Palmetto Promise has discussed regularly on this blog, there is a glaring problem with the South Carolina civil justice system that allows what we have termed “billboard lawyers” to target legitimate businesses for “nuclear” verdicts just because those businesses are successful, not necessarily because they are at fault. The most targeted businesses in the
Innovation Requires Freedom: Let Charters Work
Charleston County School District has created quite the stir in the charter school sector over the last couple of days – first by suggesting amendments to a piece of legislation that reforms and strengthens how charter school authorizers function in South Carolina (amendments that would create different requirements and oversight mechanisms for local and statewide
To fill teacher vacancies, SC could accept certificates from other states
Palmetto Promise Director of Education Policy Ryan Dellinger is quoted in this article, originally published in the South Carolina Daily Gazette, discussing a bill that would opt South Carolina in to the Interstate Teacher Mobility Compact. We submitted written testimony on this bill as well, which you can read here. Columbia, S.C. (South Carolina Daily
House Agrees to $309M Senate Income Tax Roll Back, Cuts Overtime & Bonus Taxes, Too
South Carolina taxpayers were the winners this week in a friendly game of chicken between the Senate and the House over how deeply to cut the state’s top marginal individual income tax rate. But before we get to the details of a busy money week for the legislature, here is a short tax cut history.
IN THE SPOTLIGHT: SCHOOL CHOICE
Devon and Chiquina
Janet and jason eli
Sharon
Allison
Janet and jason eli
Devon and Chiquina
Sharon
Allison